Whether in Melbourne or in Paris, African immigrants face social and cultural challenges, which public housing can either add to or help overcome.
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The fire that devastated the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral on April 15 is a historic event that reminds us of the symbolic power of national monuments.
Words are as important as pictures for helping us come to terms with such a huge cultural loss.
Images of Notre Dame on fire have elicited an outpouring of grief around the world and online. This response raises the question of why we feel more connected to some heritage places than others.
With a booming hip hop culture, Paris is the best place to introduce break dancing to the Olympic games.
City decline is neither a fatality nor an urban nightmare. It can even be the background to a resilience strategy.
With its strange bluish glow and cancer-killing qualities, meet the wundermetal that became one of the great cautionary tales of modern times.
A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
The debate over the place of cars in cities may seem recent, but pamphlets published during the French Revolution show that the battle was raging before the first automobile even saw the light of day.
How can a hashtag supportive of refugees be hijacked by those opposing them? An empirical study explores the process.
Economic polarisation across Europe is becoming an important phenomenon, in part driven by monetary policies that can increase office prices and can even affect the fundamentals that drive the markets.
Through his art and his travels, 19th-century French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix sought to understand the chaos of an era he called ‘the century of unbelievable things.’
A rainy day and a meeting with a street artist lead to a mediation on the “mirror effect” for researchers.
A sociologist interviewed hundreds of immigrants in New York, Barcelona and Paris. Here’s what they say those cities get right — and do wrong — when integrating foreign-born residents.
Although it is unlikely to find a scenario similar to that of the major flood of 1910, France’s national flood forecasting network is closely monitoring the level of the Seine.
Weakening the institutional as well as the symbolic functioning of the rule of law has the consequence of introducing new “risks”, and thus creating more insecurity.
An invasive insect native to Asia, Halyomorpha halys, has been detected in the US, Canada and southern Europe. It’s now made its debut in Paris.
While Islamophobic acts in Paris mainly take place in public institutions, in London they’re mainly on the street or on public transport.
France is transforming old industrial wastelands in cities like Paris, Lyon and Nantes, so what are the secrets of its success?
In the future, Europe will suffer from more heat waves as well as extreme rainfall, presenting new challenges for planners and health care services. Building resilient cities can help.
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Rédacteur en chef, coordination internationale et technique, The Conversation France
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Dress and Belonging, Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professeure de stratégie et comportement des organisations, directrice de Kedge Arts School, Kedge Business School
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Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Directrice de recherche au CNRS, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po
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